The Millionth Year

by James M. McCracken

"Somehow, I always thought that next to God, parents and little brothers never died. They would always be there."


Life was never the same for Cory Martin after his twelfth birthday, the day his whole world came crashing down. People he had grown to love were not who he thought they were. He was no longer who he thought he was.


Returning home after a ten year absence, Cory is forced to face his past in order to find his future.

251 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2011

About the author

James M. McCracken was born and raised in Oregon. He is the fifth of seven children. He lost his mother when he was eighteen. That is why family has always been important to him and features prominently in the stories he writes.

However, his love for writing began when he was a teen. At age 13 he went away to a seminary boarding school. It was there that he began to write but mainly for his own entertainment. He felt his ideas and stories weren't "good enough" to share. That changed his senior year when he saw a movie poster. The movie's storyline was the same as a story he had written two years earlier. He reasoned "If two people could have the same idea, then maybe my ideas aren't stupid after all."

It took another twenty years of writing while working full-time at the telephone company before his first novel was published, SECRETS The Wallace Family.

With the major shift and changes in the publishing industry, James turned to self-publishing, reasoning that authors Mark Twain, John Grisham, J. K. Rowling and many others self-published their own novels in the beginning before being picked up by 'traditional publishing' houses.

Two years after the release of his first novel, James published the first book in a new young reader series inspired by his teen years in a boarding school. CHARLIE MACCREADY The Ghost in the Attic. When the second in the series came out, problems with the foreign publishing company caused him to cancel his contract with them and go another route.

After retiring early from the telephone company, James began to focus more time to his writing. He has now broadened his range venturing into writing Sci-Fi with a post-apocalyptic novel AWAKE and also into Thrillers/Suspense with ELLENSBURG and STUMPTOWN.

In 2009 he left the Portland area and moved to Central Oregon where the quieter, slower-paced life affords him more time to focus and write.